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On 9 June 2000 the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) amended parts of the Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (Unfair Competition Act - UWG) in order to standardise what is known as comparative advertising. Previously such advertising was not expressly regulated in Germany. In most cases, the courts used to classify comparative advertising as anti-competitive. The amendment transposes European Parliament and Council Directive 97/55/EC of 6 October 1997 into German law. The Directive itself contains individual conditions that must be fulfilled if comparative advertising is to be considered legal....

The Fernabsatzgesetz (Distance Marketing Act), which was adopted on 9 June 2000, entered into force on 30 June 2000. Directive 97/7/EC on the protection of customers in respect of distance contracts (see IRIS 1997-7: 7) was thus transposed into German law (see IRIS 1999-7: 14 concerning the draft Act). The Fernabsatzgesetz (FernAbsG) sets out basic conditions for purchases made via distance communication systems, ie letter, catalogue, e-mail, fax, telephone and broadcasting, telecommunications and media services. According to Article 3 of the Act together with Article 361a of the Bürgerliches...

After hearing the views of those involved and taking into consideration the statements that had been submitted, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Conference of Regional Media Authority DirectorsDLM) has established rules on freedom of access to digital services on the basis of Article 53.7 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Agreement between Federal States on Broadcasting). The rules had previously been submitted in draft form on 21 February 2000 (see IRIS 2000-3: 11). The version that was finally adopted also mentioned the unbundling of API (Application Programming Interface) and CAS...

In a ruling of 24 February 2000, the Landgericht München (Munich District Court) upheld the complaint of a TV director and prohibited the production company Bavaria from producing and broadcasting the German version of an English-language television programme directed by the plaintiff. Since 1993, the director had been working on a film set in Australia, which had been established as a German-Australian co-production before filming began. On this basis, he directed the original English version. However, he had certain disagreements with the production company, which was producing the German version...

The Hessische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk (Hessian Regional Private Broadcasting Authority - LPR Hessen), which monitors the programmes of the private television channel RTL2, has complained about the broadcasting of seven pornographic films. Also on 15 June 2000, the broadcaster was prohibited from showing similar programmes in the future. LPR Hessen had decided to investigate the pornographic content of erotic films shown by RTL2 in recent months. As a result, seven out of more than thirty films that were examined were classified as "pornographic". LPR Hessen's classification therefore...